An Elephant's Trunk

[Datalord]

I spent quite a bit of nights gathering data on IC1396 while the nights were short, so I managed to get a total of 23 hours. I boiled it down to 15 hours of the best frames and got a result I'm pretty happy with.

[MarkAR]

Excellent image. 

[Bluecloudyeagle]

stunning image

[ollypenrice]

Deliciously resolved details in the dusty part of the trunk feature. Are you tempted to try this in LRGB as well? There are entirely different things to see in the top of the trunk.

Super image. That kit is working!

Olly

[JeremyS]

Cracking image, @Datalord 👍

Edited August 17, 2020 by JeremyS

[Hals]

Superb 👍 

[Datalord]

4 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Super image. That kit is working!

Thank you! Yeah, I've gotten to know the data it produces pretty well by now. One thing noone tells you about astrophotography is that the quirks of your gear is present throughout all your processing.

4 hours ago, ollypenrice said:

Are you tempted to try this in LRGB as well? There are entirely different things to see in the top of the trunk.

Hmm, I didn't think of doing this in LRGB. I think I would also be pretty apprehensive about adding another image and blending this one without ruining both. Do you have any examples of what I might find there?

[TerryMcK]

Fantastic image. Very impressed.

[ollypenrice]

24 minutes ago, Datalord said:

Thank you! Yeah, I've gotten to know the data it produces pretty well by now. One thing noone tells you about astrophotography is that the quirks of your gear is present throughout all your processing.

Hmm, I didn't think of doing this in LRGB. I think I would also be pretty apprehensive about adding another image and blending this one without ruining both. Do you have any examples of what I might find there?

Sure. This is HaLRGB at lower res than yours, about 1.8"PP. It's a very tight crop but there are nice little things in there. Likewise your NB has found things that this didn't.

Olly

[Datalord]

10 minutes ago, ollypenrice said:

Sure. This is HaLRGB at lower res than yours, about 1.8"PP. It's a very tight crop but there are nice little things in there. Likewise your NB has found things that this didn't.

Yeah, that could be interesting. That might be one for next summer to augment this one.